Videos

This session will support growth and understanding around self and peer assessment. Participants will learn the conditions necessary to increase both student engagement and achievement through planning and implementing peer and self assessment strategies. Experience the process of co constructing rubrics, using success criteria and learning targets, and then moving them into self and peer assessment structures. LINK TO HANDOUTS: https://padlet.com/scaparelli/lfkennd0yanqc0lk

This session visits the why and the how of questioning techniques as they relate to formative assessment. Learn the importance of cultivating a classroom culture that values errors, rigorous thinking, and a broader base of participation from students. Then get ready to take these proven techniques back to your classroom to implement them. Link to Materials: https://padlet.com/scaparelli/9k5xivt0te0lq4f3

This session will focus on the use of instructional strategies to support macro-level writing instruction and the writing process at the secondary level (grades 4-12) for students who struggle with writing skills. Specifically, strategies to help improve the focus, content, organization, and style of student writing will be discussed. Participants who wish to implement a strategy from this session and attend the second session in this series will receive a presentation template. LINK TO HANDOUTS: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XteDceFKSaJ4DmKvEWGjA8TkOU4YieVl?usp=share_link

This is a follow up to the Day 1 one session, continuing with a focus on the use of instructional strategies to support micro-level writing instruction at the secondary level (grades 4-12) for students who struggle with writing skills. While handwriting, keyboarding, and spelling will be discussed, emphasis will focus on how to explicitly teach sentence analysis and construction using the “Identify-Expand-Combine- and Create” strategy. Other strategies, including the use of grammar building charts and sentence unscrambling, will also be covered. MATERIALS FOR THIS SESSION CAN BE FOUND HERE: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QJO13LXg7TyaZiXEWDYjcjh--xTToyh8?usp=share_link

Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RIIbYVS5OaOHrefVyijucGWRmfB2cni5 This session will focus on the use of instructional strategies to support micro-level writing instruction at the secondary level (grades 4-12) for students who struggle with writing skills. While handwriting, keyboarding, and spelling will be discussed, emphasis will focus on how to explicitly teach sentence analysis and construction using the “Identify-Expand-Combine- and Create” strategy. Other strategies, including the use of grammar building charts and sentence unscrambling, will be presented.

After providing a variety of options for high school and middle school scheduling, the presenter will discuss the scheduling and implementation of the Intervention/Enrichment (IE) period at the secondary level. Additionally, the presenter also will offer examples of the “Unit” or “Community” lunch period, used by many schools to support MTSS interventions.

This video explores some options for students who are deaf or hard of hearing to successfully transition to life after high school.

This training is designed to support the successful implementation of the secondary transition process by increasing the knowledge of speech-language pathologists regarding legal requirements and best practices regarding secondary transition. Participants in this course will examine the requirements for secondary transition, based on the IDEA definition and Indicator 13. They will discuss the members of the transition team and identify the transition coordinator at their local educational agency (LEA). The steps of the transition planning process will be introduced, and communication connections made with each component of planning. Additionally, participants will examine relationships between communication and the role of the SLP, as they apply to the three domains of transition planning: post-secondary/education and training, employment, and independent living/community participation.

Preparing for transition or change is a critical factor to success. Hear three perspectives on why transition planning is so vital for young adults.

This training is especially helpful for administrators who oversee students in their schools who qualify for 504 Service Agreements. This training will provide administrators with information on Section 504 including: • History of Section 504 • Definition • Qualifications for a 504 Service Agreement • Components of a 504 Service Agreement • Differences from special education • Current Trends • Litigation